"Or some giant corporation bent on turning us all into mindless, robotic consumers."

The biggest problem with the fee rise is that it turns students into consumers who lack real choice.

The technology is conceptually divided into consumers and providers.

"The goal is to come up with emotional insights into consumers, emotional ways to talk about rational things."

The music business seems to have been working almost systematically to turn passionate devotees into apathetic consumers.

"And that same fascination can also convert kids into consumers at an even earlier age."

Free shipping and free returns are the bait that turn us into restless consumers.

Some are turning into conspicuous consumers, running up debts on credit cards like their counterparts in the west.

This means, in particular, in the global economy, where we will see a billion and then further billions of people develop into heavyweight consumers.

Information is now the key to everything, turning us into listed consumers of classified products.